Garment-hanger.



N0- 808,653. PATENTED JAN. 2, 1906.

- W. F. HALL & W. DONALDSON.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 11.1900. RENEWED DEC. 17, 1904.

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WILLIAM F. HALL AND WALTER DONALDSON, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

Application filed October 11, 1900. Renewed December 17, 1904. Serial No. 237,293.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM F. HALL and WALTER DONALDSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates more particularly to that class of garment-hangers which is designed to hold trousers suspended by gripping the bottoms of the legs of the same; and it consists in the special construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention; Fig. 2, asectional view of the wedge-piece; Fig. 3, a detail view representing the manner of securing the metal clips in place, and Fig. 4 is a detail view representing another way of effecting the connection of the clips with the backboard. Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional views of modifications of our device.

The hanger is made up of a backpiece or board 1, of wood or like material, having slits 2 formed in its ends intermediate of its front which extend into the slits in the ends of the backboard. We secure these metal sockets in place without the use of nails, screws, rivets, or the like, and for this purpose we form the sockets from sheet metal, which is capable of being indented or upset into the wood of the back-piece. WVe prefer to upset the metal by simply driving a punch through the wooden back-piece, so that the point thereof striking the sheet metal will indent or prick the same, and thus force it into the wood on the opposite side of the slit from that from which the punch is driven. This construction is shown in Fig. 8. The upset metal is indicated at 12 in Fig. 3. Instead of this the metal may be upset at its exposed edges, as shown at 7 in Fig. 4. In either case the upset part of the metal will hold the metal clip in place securely, coacting for this purpose with the" flange will resist all tendency of the clip to turn in the slit. The wedge-piece is, like the backboard, made of wood, and it has aninclined front face, so that when it is inserted in the guides or sockets'and moved upwardly therein its fiat back face will move toward the goods resting upon the front face of the backpiece, and thus engage the garment.

The hanger is suspended by a hook 8, and this is secured in place by boring a hole through the wedge-piece at an inclination, so that the upper end of the book will be over the center of gravity, or substantially so. For this purpose the hook extends substantially parallel with the front inclined face of the wedgepiece. Thisarrangementofthehookisshown in Fig. 2.

As shown in Fig. 2, the hook-shank is. bent slightly at its lower end or upset to form a head, as at 9, and this is sufficient to sustain the weight of the parts. The wedge-piece can turn around the hook, so that the garment will swivel about its point of suspension.

As indicated in Fig. 4, the base-flange may be formed with a tongue 00 therein, (see dotted lines,) and after the base-flange is inserted a punch may be forced through the board to strike the tongue and embed it into the wood.

As shown in Fig. 5, the two parts of the hanger may be joined by a flexible connection 10. This connection may have the suspending device thereon, and the front portion of The slit isof such width as this flexible connection is preferably sh'orter IOO A circular, band, or other saw can be used in forming the slits. The base-flange of the guide is plain and flat, and as the slit is also plain and of a width to receive the flange the guide can be readily inserted from the end of the piece and pushed in until the edge of the base-flange finds a bearing against the bottom of thes lit and the end Wall 1 of the guide finds a bearing against the end of the piece. These bearings will prevent lateral rocking of the metal guide in the slit, and it then needs only a single indentation of the metal at, for instance, :0 to securely hold the guide in place. Another advantage of this construction is that the bearing of the end Wall y at 13 against the end of the slitted piece serves to brace the guide against inward displacement.

We claim-- 1. A garmenthanger comprising a piece having slits in its ends, extending from edge to edge of the piece and of the same size throughout, Wedge-shaped guides having plain flat base-flanges fitted to said slits and held therein with the end Wall of the guides extending from the slit up across the end of the slitted piece, and a piece arranged to slide in the guides to hold the garment.

2. In combination in a garment-hanger, a piece having slits at its ends, guide-pieces having a base-flange fitted to the slit, the metal of said base-flange being upset into the material of the slitted piece adjacent to the slit and a clamping-piece movable in the guidepieces, substantially as described.

3. In combination in a garment-hanger, a

piece having slits at its ends, guide-pieces having a flange fitted to the slit with the edge of the flange bearing against the bottom of the slit, said flange being upset into the Wood forming the Wall of the slit intermediate of its side edges, substantially as described.

4. In combination in a garment-hanger, a back-piece having slitted ends, guides having base-flanges inserted in the slits, the metal of the base-flange being punched through the Wooden back-piece from one side of the slit into the Wood on the opposite side of the slit and a clamping member movable in the guides on the back-piece to clamp the garment between itself and the said back-piece, substantially as described.

5. In combination in a garment-hanger, a back-piece guides presenting Wedge-shaped guideways and having a portion driven into the back-piece at or near its ends and a Wedge member movable in the guides to hold the garment.

6. In combination in a garment-hanger, a back-piece, guides presenting Wedge-shaped guideWays and having a portion inserted in the back piece intermediate the thickness thereof and a Wedging member movable in the said guides, substantially as described.

In testimony W hereof We affix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

WM. F. HALL. WALTER DONALDSON. Witnesses:

HENRY E. OooPnR, (J. S. MIDDLETON. 

